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I'm surprised at how many of these I don't remember

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 09:00am on 2005-08-23 under

The instructions:

Go to MusicOutfitters.com.
In the Search box, enter the year you graduated high school.
The first item returned should be the 100 most popular songs from that year. Cut and paste them into your journal.
 
Bold the ones you like.
Underline your favorite.
Strike through the songs you loathe.

I'm surprised at how many of these I simply don't remember. (OTOH, some of my then-favourites didn't make the top-100 list.) Also, I hated some songs that later grew on me, and got sick of a few that I'd originally thought kind of cute. I tried to answer according to my tastes then, as well as I could recall.

I snagged this meme from [livejournal.com profile] scherzoid.

  1. Call Me, Blondie
  2. Another Brick In The Wall, Pink Floyd
  3. Magic, Olivia Newton-John
  4. Rock With You, Michael Jackson
  5. Do That To Me One More Time, Captain and Tennille
  6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen
  7. Coming Up, Paul McCartney
  8. Funkytown, Lipps, Inc.
  9. It's Still Rock And Roll To Me, Billy Joel
  10. The Rose, Bette Midler
  11. Escape (The Pina Colada Song), Rupert Holmes
  12. Cars, Gary Numan
  13. Cruisin', Smokey Robinson
  14. Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl, Spinners
  15. Lost In Love, Air Supply
  16. Little Jeannie, Elton John
  17. Ride Like The Wind, Cristopher Cross
  18. Upside Down, Diana Ross
  19. Please Don't Go, K.C. and The Sunshine Band
  20. Babe, Styx
  21. With You I'm Born Again, Billy Preston and Syreeta
  22. Shining Star, Manhattans
  23. Still, Commodores
  24. Yes, I'm Ready, Teri De Sario With K.C.
  25. Sexy Eyes, Dr. Hook
  26. Steal Away, Robbie Dupree
  27. Biggest Part Of Me, Ambrosia
  28. This Is It, Kenny Loggins
  29. Cupid-I've Loved You For A Long Time, Spinners
  30. Let's Get Serious, Jermaine Jackson
  31. Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer, Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes
  32. Sailing, Christopher Cross
  33. Longer, Dan Fogelberg
  34. Coward Of The County, Kenny Rogers
  35. Ladies Night, Kool and The Gang
  36. Take Your Time, S.O.S. Band
  37. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer
  38. Too Hot, Kool and The Gang
  39. More Love, Kim Carnes
  40. Pop Muzik, M
  41. Brass In Pocket, Pretenders
  42. Special Lady, Ray, Goodman and Brown
  43. Send One Your Love, Stevie Wonder
  44. The Second Time Around, Shalamar
  45. We Don't Talk Anymore, Cliff Richard
  46. Heartache Tonight , Eagles
  47. Stomp, Brothers Johnson
  48. Tired Of Toein' The Line, Rocky Burnette
  49. Better Love Next Time, Dr. Hook
  50. Him, Rupert Holmes
  51. Against The Wind, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
  52. On The Radio, Donna Summer
  53. Emotional Rescue, Rolling Stones
  54. Rise, Herb Alpert
  55. All Out Of Love, Air Supply
  56. Cool Change, Little River Band
  57. You're Only Lonely, J.D. Souther
  58. Desire, Andy Gibb
  59. Let My Love Open The Door, Pete Townshend
  60. Daydream Believer, Anne Murray
  61. I Can't Tell You Why, Eagles
  62. Don't Let Go, Isaac Hayes
  63. Don't Do Me Like That, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
  64. She's Out Of My Life, Michael Jackson
  65. Fame, Irene Cara
  66. Fire Lake, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
  67. How Do I Make You, Linda Ronstadt
  68. Into The Night, Benny Mardones
  69. Let Me Love You Tonight, Pure Prairie League
  70. Misunderstanding, Genesis
  71. An American Dream, Dirt Band
  72. One Fine Day, Carole King
  73. Dim All The Lights, Donna Summer
  74. You May Be Right, Billy Joel
  75. Hurt So Bad, Linda Ronstadt
  76. Should've Never Let You Go, Neil Sedaka and Dara Sedaka
  77. Pilot Of The Airwaves, Charlie Dore
  78. Off The Wall, Michael Jackson
  79. I Pledge My Love, Peaches and Herb
  80. The Long Run, Eagles
  81. Stand By Me, Mickey Gilley
  82. Heartbreaker, Pat Benatar
  83. Deja Vu, Dionne Warwick
  84. Drivin' My Life Away, Eddie Rabbitt
  85. Take The Long Way Home, Supertramp
  86. Sara, Fleetwood Mac
  87. Wait For Me, Daryl Hall and John Oates
  88. Jo Jo, Boz Scaggs
  89. September Morn, Neil Diamond
  90. Give Me The Night, George Benson
  91. Broken Hearted Me, Anne Murray
  92. You Decorated My Life, Kenny Rogers
  93. Tusk, Fleetwood Mac
  94. I Wanna Be Your Lover, Prince
  95. In America, Charlie Daniels Band
  96. Breakdown Dead Ahead, Boz Scaggs
  97. Ships, Barry Manilow
  98. All Night Long, Joe Walsh
  99. Refugee, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
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posted by [identity profile] acroyear70.livejournal.com at 01:53pm on 2005-08-23
maybe you should add an instruction : italic the ones you simply don't remember. :)
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posted by [identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com at 02:58pm on 2005-08-23
I think it would be better to italicize ones that you DO remember but are apathetic about. Certainly easier than your way, at least in 2001. Avoids emphasizing crud as well.:)
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posted by [identity profile] cchan8.livejournal.com at 03:30pm on 2005-08-23
A good idea. I decided to do that on my meme. The ones not bolded, italicized, or striked out are the ones I remember but don't feel one way or another about.
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posted by [identity profile] alyxyn.livejournal.com at 02:33pm on 2005-08-23
So, what year is this from? I'm betting 1981-1982, because I remember most of these from around the time I graduated.
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posted by [identity profile] acroyear70.livejournal.com at 03:20pm on 2005-08-23
well, the albums for many of those songs are 1979 or 1980 (Genesis Misunderstanding is from Duke, Sara from Fleetwood Mac is from 1979's Tusk, Queen's Crazy Little Thing is from 1980's The Game). However, singles at the time had a knack for lasting longer (or being released long after the album) as a way of keeping sales up and even. today's market of hit 'em hard and fast and then move on to the next hit wasn't quite so abusive back then.
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posted by [identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com at 02:57pm on 2005-08-23
They only go up to 2001. Not that I graduated in 2002. That would preposterous. Only nogoodniks could have graduated in 2002, and I am no nogoodnik. *shiftyeyes*
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 07:14pm on 2005-08-23
Don't worry about it. I don't know WTF charts they're using to make this listing, but I didn't recognise 90% of the songs on it, and the other 10% for 1994 were just simply TEH KRAP. I wonder if there's any such equivalent listings for Canadian top-100 charts, because our musical landscape is a little different... Seems to me that in the 1994 radioscape I remember, the Barenaked Ladies were pretty popular, they were playing "King of Spain" by Moxy Fruvous quite a bit ("Once I was...the King of Spain...and now I'm workin' at PizzaPizza..."), and so on.
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posted by [identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com at 11:46pm on 2005-08-23
Ah, quite. Some of the obscure stuff on mine sounds like Country and/or Western. That's definitely bigger in the States.
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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 04:31pm on 2005-08-23
I'll try it. But I'm using 1976, because that's the last year that I paid any attention at all to popular music, and I never did actually graduate from high school. I would have graduated in '78, but was kind of long gone by then.
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